Life
1822-1879; b. Wexford; invented double stethoscope, wrote on Circulation
of the Blood and Digestion, and also a medical treatise in Icelandic,
where he visited many times; Morocco and the Moors (1879), rev.
Sir Richard Burton (1891), and A Visit to the Court of Morrocco
(1879); d. London. DNB DIW OCIL.
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Notes
Dictionary of National Biography, ed. TCD, BA 1845, MD 1860; visited
India, Smyrna and the Holy Land, 1854; Iceland, 4 times, 1862-74; America
1870; Morrocco, 1872, 1877, 1879; Morocco and the Moors (1876),
and A Visit to the Court of Morocco (1879), and medical
treatises.
Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985), Circulation of the Blood and the Digestion (n.d.); also travels, Morrocco of the Moors (1876) and Visit to the Court of Morocco (1879)
Bernard Share, ed., Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing (Belfast: Blackstaff 1992)., contains extract from A visit to the Court of Morocco (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1879)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)